The Hindu 17.06.2013
‘Create awareness on solid waste management’
District Collector K. Baskaran has appealed to local
body representatives in the district to effectively implement solid
waste management and avoid plastics to protect environment and improve
sanitation in municipalities, town, and village panchayats.
Speaking
at a meeting of village panchayat presidents and officials to discuss
effective implementation of solid waste management programmes in local
bodies at the collectorate here on Sunday, Mr. Baskaran said it was the
duty of the local bodies as per section 110 (D) of Tamil Nadu Local
Bodies Act to keep the environment clean and improve sanitation. An
awareness should be created among the public about the issue.
Local
bodies should adopt resolutions against use of plastics and take steps
for solid waste management. People should be taught about segregation of
waste before disposing it. Under MGNREGS, pits could be dug to burry
wastes. Plastics could be segregated and given to local bodies so that
district administration might use it for constructing roads.
Schoolchildren
and college students should be taught segregation of waste and
production of vermicompost using bio-waste. They could spread awareness
among public.
Those willing to give plastic wastes can contact Jayalakshmi, District Level Federation of Self Help Groups on ph: 8940153600.
K. Varadarajan, Project Director, District Rural Development Agency, was present.
